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Discourse and ideology in Nabokov's prose
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ISBN: 0415753880 1134447760 1280202068 0203217993 9780203217993 9781134447756 1134447752 0203294610 9780203294611 0415286581 9780415286589 9781134447718 9781134447763 9780415753883 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century. His novels, which include Despair, Lolita and Pale Fire, have been celebrated for their stylistic artistry, their formal complexity, and their unique treatment of themes of memory, exile, loss, and desire. This collection of essays offers readings of several novels as well as discussions of Nabokov's exchange of views about literature with Edmund Wilson, and his place in the 1960s and contemporary popular culture. The volume brings together a diverse group of Nabokovian readers, of widely divergent scholarly backgrounds, interests, and approaches. Together they shift the focus from the manipulative games of author and text to the restless and sometimes resistant reader, and suggest new ways of enjoying these endlessly fascinating texts.


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The Arena of Satire
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ISBN: 0806151560 0806155051 Year: 2016 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Making parallels : synkrisis and Plutarch's "Themistocles and Camillus"

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Lucian’s science fiction novel, true histories : interpretation and commentary
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ISBN: 9004106677 9004351507 9789004106673 9789004351509 Year: 1998 Volume: 179 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's Verae Historiae ('True Histories'), a fantastic journey narrative considered the earliest surviving example of Science Fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situates the work in the context of Lucian's oeuvre, especially his preoccupation with distinguishing truth from fiction and exposing the lies of philosophers. In their commentary, the editors trace the sources and the meaning of the numerous intertextual allusions and parodies of philosophers, poets, historians and paradoxographers. The Verae Historiae emerges from this scrutiny as a remarkably complex text with some very 'modern' concerns: it problematizes the act of reading, allegorical interpretation, authorial reliability, and the validity of cultural norms and literary genres.

The sites of Rome
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ISBN: 1281149632 9786611149635 019152719X 9780191527197 0199217491 9780199217496 9781281149633 6611149635 1383035571 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This is a collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome. The variety of theoretical approaches stimulates fresh thought about Rome's primacy in Western culture.


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Lucian and Historiography : "De Historia Conscribenda" and "Verae Historiae"

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Rethinking sexuality : Foucault and classical antiquity
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ISBN: 0691016798 Year: 1997 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Chichester,UK Princetont University Press


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The arena of satire : juvenal's search for Rome
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ISBN: 9780806151564 Year: 2016 Publisher: Norman University of Oklahoma Press

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Rethinking Sexuality : Foucault and Classical Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780691224077 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW) / Rise and Decline of the Roman World : Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. . Band 34/2. Teilband. : Sprache und Literatur (Einzelne Autoren seit der hadrianischen Zeit und Allgemeines zur Literatur des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts [Forts.])

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